Flutist Paula Gudmundson is Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She earned an Honorable Mention from the 2014 National Flute Association’s Newly Published Music Competition for her edition of Amancio Alcorta’s Gran Fantasia published by Jeanee Music. Awarded a Community Partnership Grant for 2013-2014 from the Minnesota State Arts Board to record works by Amancio Alcorta and Alberto Williams and recipient of a 2011– 2012 Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board for research of flute in Latin American art music, traveling to Buenos Aires, Argentina in search of neglected early 20th century music.

In 2012 she presented programs throughout the Midwest featuring solo and collaborative works from Argentina in a program titled La Flauta of Buenos Aires. She was awarded the Paul Revitt Award for Graduate Research from the College Music Socie ty for; La Flauta of Buenos Aires through the Music of Amancio Alcorta at the Great Plains Regional Conference in Spring 2012. This program was also featured on Minnesota Public Radio’s Regional Spotlight in August 2012. Dr. Gudmundson is a practitioner of the Alexander Technique, which focuses on the effective means of changing tension habits and improving coordination. This has contributed to her innovative and observant teaching style.

Her principal teachers include Immanuel Davis, Terri Sundberg, Ernestine Whitman and Adrianne Greenbaum.